jason reilly, that man from the nation of islam. when you say it's a 6% handling.s about a 30 hair led investigation, obama is worried about trumping up support or keeping the support that he has among blacks. but they want to see him do more. this speaks to the distrust you have between the politician and the black community. and we see it flare up with instances like ferguson. >> could it be something specific? let's take, for example, prosecution, beating up the whole -- >> -- sure. >> grand jury process. getting eric holder in there. maybe even putting pressure on governor nixon to appoint a special prosecutor. >> the black community wants to see the wheels of justice turning faster than they are. i think obama is limited in making that happen, but he can do something about the optics. and so, for political reasons, to placate this that is agitating for him to do more. he sends holder out there to do this parallel investigation, even though i'm told it's highly unusual. usually you sit back and let the local authorities complete their work. if they see somethin

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. >> now, i've -- jason reilly is a member of "the wall street journal" editorial board. on our program this morning. he said this is not much to do with politics. this is about bad behavior by young black men. what do you say to that? >> well, there's no doubt -- i think it's interesting if anyone tries to make cut or dry. it's a combination. we're human being, it's not just one element. obviously poverty plays an amazing role triple think the idea of people feeling disrespected plays an amazing role there the idea of people feeling a sense of hopelessness plays an amazing role there, and all you need is a spark. if there's no absolutely no excuse for this kind of stuff, and i think a lot of these kids, even those participating in it, you rob a convenience store, it's not a retirement account. you get out some sort of rage, may come out with a pack of cigarettes. it's sort of like a smaller version of this, nonless violent persian would be someone writing graffiti. somebody in the ghetto breaking into a train station, writing graffiti, saying to the world, i'm angry. and

my old buddy at the "wall street journal" jason reilly said the black crime rate in the 1960s was much lower than it is today. and yet in the 1960s, nobody would argue in the 1960s there was more opportunity for minorities than there is today. nobody would argue that there was less racism in the 1960s than there is today, and yet the crime rate was lower, why? >> the crime rate has increasingly been going down since the time you're talking about. and i think one of the things we have to focus on here. >> hold on, hold on, hold on, no, it is not. >> economic opportunity. >> i'm sorry. >> you're wrong! in the early 1960s, the crime rate was very low in black communities. >> exactly. >> it is much higher in black communities today. why? >> over the past 20 years, the crime rate has gone down, the economic opportunity has not gone up. >> not true in black communities, the crime rate was much higher in the erl60s. >> after the war on drugs. >> that's not true. >> excuse me. when you're putting people in communities with no access to economic opportunities and bringing -- making a bridge to

i want you to listen for a moment at jason reilly speaking last night on special report. >> the whole idea that, you know, the police don't respect value of black lives or america doesn't value black lives. what about these black thugs and the values they place on black lives given the crime statistics. in new york 25% of the population is black but 2-thirds of the violent crime is perpetratored by black. 90% of shootings are low income black neighborhoods. >> dr. carson i'm hearing a lot more of that because of ferguson. do you agree? >> and we need to hear a lot more of it. it's become politically incorrect to actually put your finger on the real problem. and you look in some of these cities like chicago, why don't we talk about their failed gun laws? and why don't we talk about what is their mayor doing? why are things getting so bad? because he's a friend of the secular progressives. we have to stop picking and choosing who the friends and foes are and start looking objectively at how do we solve these kinds of problems because we can't afford it. we're on a global stage. there's

jason reilly from the "wall street journal" takes the president to task for that. got to stop attributing black crime to racial injustice. listen to this. >> one thing he said today as he talked about black crime a little bit, which i was happy to see, he said black criminals should be prosecuted, which is helpful. but then he attributed that black criminality, he suggested it stems from poverty or racist criminal justice system, which is nonsense. the black crime rate in 1960 was lower than it is today. was there less racism or less poverty in 1960? this is about black behavior. it needs to be addressed head on. it's about attitudes toward the criminal justice system in these neighborhoods where young black men have no sense of what it means to be a male or what it means to be black and he needs to talk about that head on, not dismiss it as a product of poverty or racism, which is a dodge. >> so some are arguing this just political opportunism sending eric holder there. why, as others argued, have they not sent him to places like new york city or chicago? chicago

here to react is jason reilly, a columnist with the "wall street journal" and fox news contributor as is eric holder going? >> oh, it's optics. there is political pressure from the black community, from the left to look like they're doing something. so i think they've launched this parallel investigation purely for appearances. >> it's a pr stunt? >> a pr stunt. i've been told that siply the feds -- typically the feds don't get involved unless there is some evidence the local authorities can't get the job done or if there is a history of civil rights violations in the police department. neither has been alleged here. >> eric holder has a history of making comments on race. we have a little montage, about 30 seconds worth. i want your reaction. watch this. >> in things racial, we have always been, and we, i believe, continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. you look at the way the attorney general of the united states was treated yesterday. what attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? what president has ever had to deal with that kind o